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Combating mountaintop removal : new directions in the fight against big coal / Bryan T. McNeil.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McNeil, Bryan T.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mountaintop removal mining--Appalachian Region.
- Mountaintop removal mining.
- Coal mines and mining--Environmental aspects--Appalachian Region.
- Coal mines and mining.
- Landscape protection--Appalachian Region--Citizen participation.
- Landscape protection.
- Community activists--Appalachian Region.
- Community activists.
- Environmentalists--Appalachian Region.
- Environmentalists.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Critically examining the fierce conflicts over an intense and increasingly prevalent form of strip mining, 'Combating Mountaintop Removal' documents the changing relationships among the coal industry, communities, environment, and economy from the perspective of local grassroots activist organizations and their broader networks.
- Contents:
- Welcome to coal river
- Fighting back
- again
- What are we fighting for?
- Strained solidarities
- The chase
- Whose development is it?
- Gender, solidarity, and symbolic capital
- Commons environmentalism and community activism.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-58284-8
- 9786613895295
- 0-252-09346-1
- OCLC:
- 783468911
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